[Reader-list] Giving money to any individual student based on faith, caste, is it correct in rule of laws, in democra

[A.K. Malik]

Rakeshji,
           At least there is one thing where I have agreement with views expressed by you.
Thanks a lot

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Giving money to any individual student based on faith, caste, is it correct in rule of laws, in democra
> To: "subhrodip sengupta" <sub_sengupta at yahoo.co.in>
> Cc: "Readers list Yousuf Sarai." <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 4:35 PM
> Dear Subhrodip
> 
> I agree with you on one particular thing here. Any such
> scheme, be it giving
> girls some money if they come to school, or the Ladli Laxmi
> Yojana, is
> actually based on a mindset which is patriarchial. The
> female is being
> patronized in such cases. But one must remember that the
> dominating
> situation within our society is indeed patriarchial.
> 
> Even today, if a girl marries against her father's wishes
> in most of the
> families in India, there would be a huge 'hungama'. And
> girls doing love
> marriages are even killed for 'honour' if you were to go to
> Punjab and
> Haryana, even if they travel abroad!
> 
> At such a moment of time, when we would like our women to
> also grow well and
> come up in life, and we want to ensure a better sex ratio
> in our society
> (increase the no. of females per males), it is inevitable
> that such schemes
> have to be conjured up, so that we can hope that if not
> today, the educated
> females of today can tomorrow , on becoming mothers, at
> least help in
> creating a society which is not patriarchial (or even
> matriarchial) but an
> equal society.
> 
> We cannot bring this change through a Leftist blood-filled
> revolution,
> neither can we bring this change through a Rightist market
> based revolution.
> This has to be based on social aspects and we have to do
> this unfortunately.
> I agree that this change should be brought in so that 30
> years from now, our
> females wouldn't be submissive as they are today.
> 
> Of course, as I remember having read in one of my courses,
> we are moving
> towards a decisive stage when women would be so powerful
> that one day, men
> of India would require a National Commission on Men (like
> NCM on minorities,
> women, tribals and so on) as they would get most of the
> rights. And to prove
> themselves masculine each and every day, they would have to
> slog it out. For
> the idea was that a female in India would not have to do
> extraordinary
> things everyday to prove her feminity, but a male would
> have to work both at
> office and home to prove his masculinity, in addition to of
> course, getting
> more as salary than the female he wants to marry with.
> 
> For the moment, we can forget such predictions and support
> such schemes.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rakesh
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